I recently visited an emarketing company. About 20 mostly young people sat in four rows with keyboards and screens. I was there in response to an enquiry from the CEO concerning the development of his team – he had in mind that I might run a workshop for all employees on a topic of interest to …

This version of the Glass Wall was a track session at the 2013 OD Network Europe Conference.  We were lucky enough to have a group of sophisticated, enthusiastic and open practitioners willing to ‘have a go’ and join the experiment; an ideal participant group! We set things up so that a group of five people in the …

Due to family events that rather caught me by surprise, I couldn’t attend the Glass Wall session at the ODN conference in person. But that turned out to be quite fortuitous. These same events meant I had to stay at home, but that also that I could ‘follow’ the gist of the conversation via twitterfall, …

To the C21L group: well I’ve been hassling you all to come up with something that reflects on your experience and realised I haven’t offered much myself recently! So here goes… I am sitting in my kitchen diner, with the sun coming through the frosted glass. I have a warm feeling when I think of …

How can we encourage organisations to engage more wholeheartedly with Social Media, both inside and beyond their boundaries? How could we combine this inquiry with helping leaders obtain the capacities required in complex businesses? We embraced these linked questions in what became the ‘Glass Wall’ experiment, a joint venture between Training Journal and leadership and …

Back in February 2012, we asked a group of associates a question that had been troubling us since we formed Mayvin in 2011: How do we develop a programme of learning in C21L (21st Century leadership) context that is both sensitive to relationships and could work well online/in a virtual & socially networked environment? Luckily …